Toronto/Wellington — Canada’s main immigration website appeared to crash and New Zealand reported increased traffic from US nationals as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump inched closer to the White House on Wednesday. Canada’s main immigration website appeared to suffer repeated outages on Tuesday night as Trump took the lead in several major states and his prospects for winning the US presidency turned markedly higher. In New Zealand, immigration officials told Reuters on the eve of the vote that New Zealand Now website, which deals with residency and student visas, had received 1,593 registrations from US citizens since November 1 — more than 50% of a typical month’s registrations in just seven days. Visits to New Zealand Now from the US were up almost 80% to 41,000 from October to November 7, compared with the same period last year.

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